513 WEST 20TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011 TEL: 212.645.1701 FAX: 212.645.8316
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
NICK CAVE
Born in 1959, Missouri Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
1989
MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1984 – 1986
Graduate Studies, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas
1982
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri
SELECTED ONE-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2021
Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, Seattle, March 10 – June 5, 2021.
2019
Augment by Nick Cave, Cyclorama, Boston, Massachusetts, August 9 – September 13, 2019.
Nick Cave, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, April 6 – July 28, 2019.
Nick Cave: DIALOGUE, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, June 12 – July 31, 2019.
2018 – 2020
Nick Cave: The Let Go, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, June 7 – July 1, 2018. Travels to:
Navy Pier, Expo Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2020.
Nick Cave: Midnight Moment, Times Square, New York, New York, December 1 – December 31, 2018.
If A Tree Falls, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, November 1 – December 22, 2018.
Nick Cave: Weather or Not, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, May 17 – June 23, 2018.
2017 – 2018
Nick Cave: Rescue, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 22,
2017 – May 13, 2018.
2017 – 2020
Nick Cave: Feat, The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, November 10, 2017 – June
24, 2018. Traveled to: Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, September 14 – December 30, 2018; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, February 23 – June 2, 2019; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 29 – September 22, 2019; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, October 26, 2019 – February 16, 2020.
2017
Nick Cave, Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia, January 27 – April 23, 2017.
2016 – 2017
Nick Cave, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 14, 2016 – August
14, 2017.
2016 – 2021
Until, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, Massachusetts, October
16, 2016 – September, 2017. Travels to: Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia, November 23, 2018 – March 3, 2019; Tramway, Glasgow, UK, August 2 – November 24, 2019; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, July 18, 2020 – January 3, 2021.
2016
Spotted by Nick Cave, Artspace, Shreveport, Louisiana, February 25 – May 7, 2016.
2015
Nick Cave: Here Hear, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 20 – October 11, 2015.
2014 – 2015
Currents 109: Nick Cave, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, October 31, 2014 – March 8,
2015.
2014
Nick Cave, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, February 6 – May 4, 2014.
Nick Cave: Rescue and Made by Whites for Whites, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York,
September 4 – October 11, 2014.
Encounter: Nick Cave, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, October 28 – November 22, 2014.
2013
Freeport 006: Nick Cave, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, March 2 – June 3, 2013.
Curated by Trevor Smith.
Nick Cave: The World is My Skin, Trapholt Museum, Denmark, March 14 – September 8, 2013.
Nick Cave: Sojourn, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, June 9 – September 22, 2013.
2012 – 2013
Fantastic 2012, Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille, France, October 6, 2012 – January 13, 2013.
2012
Soundsuits, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, February 24 – March 24, 2012.
Nick Cave, Austin Museum of Art / Arthouse at the Jones Center, Texas, September 29 – December 30,
2012.
2011 – 2012
Nick Cave: Let’s C, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 16, 2011 –
February 2012.
2011
Nick Cave: Ever-After, Jack Shainman Gallery in collaboration with Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New
York, September 9 – October 8, 2011.
Nick Cave: For Now, Mary Boone Gallery in collaboration with Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New
York, September 10 – October 22, 2011.
2010
Nick Cave, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy, March 27 – June 15, 2010.
2009 – 2012
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,
California,
April – July 5, 2009. Traveled to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, July 30, 2009 – November 29, 2009; Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, January 10 – May 30, 2010; Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 9, 2010 – January 9, 2011; Seattle Art Museum, Washington, March 10 – June 5, 2011; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, August – December 30, 2011; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, January 21 – April 29, 2012; Boise Art Museum, Idaho, May 19 – November 4, 2012. Catalogue.
Nick Cave: Recent Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, January 8 – February 7, 2009.
2008
Nick Cave: Alter-Skins, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, New York, September 16 – October 26, 2008.
2007
Nick Cave Soundsuits, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, April 1 – May 20,
2007.
Second Skins: Sculptural Soundsuits and Tondos by Nick Cave, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Jacksonville, Florida, January 26 – April 7, 2007.
2006 – 2007
Nick Cave, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2006 – January 28, 2007. 2006
Nick Cave: Soundsuits, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York, October 13 – November 11, 2006.
Nick Cave: Soundsuits, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, June 2006.
2005
Nick Cave: Soundsuits, Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2004
Nick Cave: Soundsuits, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana.
2003
Nick Cave, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia.
2002
Nick Cave: Inquisition, Wright Museum Courtyard, Beloit, Michigan, February 19 – March 26, 2002.
Nick Cave, Macalester College of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota. Traveled to: The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak,
Michigan.
2001
Nick Cave: Amalgamations, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, September 17 – December
30, 2001.
Nick Cave: New Work, Xavier, University Art Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nick Cave: Objects of Desire, Noel Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
2000
Nick Cave 2000, Duane Reed Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1999
Nick Cave: New Work, Zone One Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina.
Nick Cave: Reparations, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana.
1998
Nick Cave: Performance & Exhibition, Northern Illinois University Gallery, College of Visual and
Performing Arts, De Kalb, Illinois, April 14 – May 9, 1998.
1997
New Work, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, February 23 – August 8, 2021.
Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Benton, Arkansas, February 6 – May 31,
2021.
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, Virginia, May 22, 2021 – September 6, 2020.
Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, March
18 – October 3, 2021.
Promise, Witness, Remembrance, Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, April 7 – June 6, 2021.
2020 – 2021
The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, November 7, 2020 – January
17, 2021.
Shapeshifters, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, June 22, 2020 – April 1, 2021.
2020
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, February 29 – September
27, 2020.
2019 – 2021
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York,
November 2019 - January 2021.
Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art After Kusama, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, September 24, 2019 –
February 29, 2021.
2020
Cross Pollination: Martin Johnson Heade, Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and Our Contemporary Moment, Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, New York, May 9 –
November 1, 2020.
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, July 3 – October 11,
2020.
Flex, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, February 22 – June 7,
2020.
2019 – 2020
Dress Up, Speak Up: Regalia and Resistance, 21c Museum Hotels, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2019 – July
2020.
Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, October 6, 2019 –
February 2020.
Off the Wall: Sculpture from the Mott-Warsh Collection, MW Gallery, Flint, Michigan, August 9 – January
25, 2020.
2019
Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, October 24 – December 29,
2019.
When You Dance You Make Me Happy, Gallerie Delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy, September 13 – November
17, 2019.
Street Dreams: How Hiphop took Over Fashion, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, June 15 –
September 15, 2019.
The Empathy Lab, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California, July 11 – August 24, 2019.
King of the Hill, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, July 12 – August 9, 2019.
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art, Wrightwood 659, Chicago, Illinois, May 22 – July 20,
2019.
Dreamweavers, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California, February 13 – April 13, 2019.
Louder than Words, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia,
February 2 – May 5, 2019.
Get Up, Stand Up: Generations of trailblazing black creativity in Britain and beyond, The West Wing,
Somerset House, London, UK, June 12, 2019 – September 15, 2019.
People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, California, February 9 – April 6, 2019.
Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
October 5, 2018 – February 3, 2019.
Deviations, Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 29, 2018 – January 6, 2019.
2018
Open Spaces, Kansas City, Missouri, August 25 – October 28, 2018.
Lessons from the Institute of Empathy, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Year of the Dog, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 19 – October 14,
2018.
Tissage, Tressage, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France, May 19 – November 1, 2018.
RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, March 24 –
August 12, 2018.
2017 – 2018
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, December 15, 2017 – April 15, 2018.
Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, October 18, 2017 – February 18,
2018.
2017
Black Matters, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany, September 16 – November 4, 2017.
Inspired by Matisse: Selected Works from the Collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, February 5 –
June 18, 2017.
MIDTOWN, Salon 94, New York, New York, May 3 – June 9, 2017.
Third Space / Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama.
Home Room: A Multimedia Group Exhibition, The School │ Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New
York, January 7 – April 2017.
2016 – 2017
Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, 21c Museum Hotel, Durham, North Carolina,
September 2016 – July 2017.
Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America, Telfair Museums Jepson Center, Savannah, Georgia,
September 30, 2016 – 2017.
2016
Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska,
August 12 – December 31, 2016.
The Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Peninsula Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Traveled to: Expo
Chicago, September 22 – 25, 2016. Curated by Laura Dvorkin.
2015 – 2016
Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, Colorado,
May 17, 2015 – January 3, 2016.
You Go to My Head, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium, April 21 – May 28, 2016.
Us Is Them, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, September 18, 2015 – April 2, 2016.
Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, June 18 – September
7, 2015. Traveled to: Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, October 18, 2015 – March 13, 2016; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, April 29 – September 18, 2016. Catalogue.
Affinity Atlas, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga
Springs, New York, September 5, 2015 – January 3, 2016.
2015
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 30 – April 26, 2015.
Re:Purposed, The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State
University, Sarasota, Florida, February 13 – May 17, 2015.
Field, Road, Cloud: Art and Africa, Anna K. Meredith Gallery, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa,
February 14 – April 19, 2015.
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida,
February 8 – May 3, 2015.
You Love Me, You Love Me Not, Works from The Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Municipal Gallery Almeida
Garrett, Oporto, Portugal, March 5 – May 10, 2015.
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, Illinois, July 11 – November 22, 2015.
Necessary Force: Art in the Police State, University of New Mexico Art Museum, September 11 -
December 13, 2015.
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora, Brooklyn, New York,
May 8 – September 27, 2015.
Between History and the Body, The 8th Floor, New York, New York, July 9 – October 16, 2015.
Handle with Care, Ostrale O’15: 9. Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössische Kunst, Messe Dresden,
Germany, July 10 – September 27, 2015.
Tyger, Tyger: Lynn Chadwick and the Art of Now, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus
College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, September 29 – December 23, 2015.
Breath/Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College,
Status Quo, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, January 31 – April 12, 2015.
2014 – 2016
ME YOU US, Rasa vzw, Brussels, Flanders and Belgium.
2014 – 2015
Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, December 16, 2014 – February
15, 2015.
2014
Dries Van Noten, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France, February 26 – November 2, 2014.
The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, February 7 – April
7, 2014.
Hidden Power in African Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, May 21 – September 17, 2014.
More Material, Salon 94, New York, New York, June 26 – August 21, 2014.
Mise En Scène, The School | Jack Shainman Gallery, Kinderhook, New York, August – December 2014.
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, September 26 – November 15, 2014.
Made by… Feito por Brasileiros, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil, September 9 – December 10,
2014.
Objets: pouvoirs secrets, Passage de Retz, Paris, France, October 18 – November 12, 2014.
2013 – 2014
Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas, October 31,
2013 – January 19, 2014. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator, CAMH.
Galen at the Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert, California, November 2, 2013 – January
31, 2014.
2013
Upsodown, New Art Center, Newtonville, Massachusetts, January 14 – February 22, 2013.
Seat’s Taken, Burlington Arts Center, Burlington, Vermont, January 18 – April 12, 2013.
Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New
York, New York, January 31 – May 5, 2013.
The Abstract Impulse: Selections from the Modern and Contemporary Collections, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas, February 3 – May 5, 2013.
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Arts, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, September 2013.
Innovators and Legends: Generations in Textiles and Fibers, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon
Michigan, December 12, 2012 – March 17, 2013. Traveled to: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York, May 26 – August 11, 2013; University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, September 8 –
December 1, 2013; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, January 24 – April 11, 2014; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, May 24 – September 7, 2014.
2012
Exotic Muses: Dancers by Robert Henri and Nick Cave, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst,
American Dreamers: Facing or Escaping Reality in Contemporary American Art, Center for Contemporary
Culture at The Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, March 9 – July 15, 2012. Curated by Bart Bland. Catalogue.
Migration, Arndt Gallery, Sydney, Australia, March 27 – July 10, 2012.
Recent Acquisitions, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, May 26 – August 19, 2012.
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center,
University of Maryland, College Park, September 20 – December 14, 2012. Traveled to: Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, February 15 – April 28, 2013; The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, January 16 – June 15, 2015; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, September 15, 2014 – January 4, 2015; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, March 21 – June 29, 2015.
Mediations Biennale 2012, Poznan, Poland, September 14 – October 14, 2012.
2011 – 2014
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, October 14 – December 4, 2011. Traveled to: Katonah Museum of Art, New York, June 30 – October 13, 2013; Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, January 17 – March 21, 2014.
2011 – 2012
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, July 2011 – October 2012.
RE: Chicago, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 2011 – March 4, 2012.
Prospect.2: Works by Nick Cave and Joyce J. Scott, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane
University, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 22, 2011 – January 29, 2012.
No Object is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, November 11, 2011 – March 25, 2012.
2011
Persona: A Body in Parts, Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
North Carolina, September 17 – December 11, 2011.
Art & Fashion: Zwischen Haut und Kleid, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, March 3 – August 7, 2011.
Are You A Hybrid, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, May 3 – October 2, 2011.
Delphine Balley, Nick Cave, Angelika Markul, Eddie Martinez, Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, Pierre Schwerzmann, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, France, opened May 13, 2011.
Pandora’s Box: Joseph Cornell Unlocks the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Illinois, June 18 – October 16, 2011. Curated by Michael Darling.
Go Figure, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Illinois, June 30 – September 4, 2011.
2010 – 2011
The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
Providence, Rhode Island, September 1, 2010 – February 28, 2011.
The Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York, November 17, 2010 – May
15, 2011. Curated by Lowery Sims and Leslie King-Hammond. Catalogue.
Now What?, Norton Museum, Miami, Florida, December 15, 2010 – March 13, 2011.
2010
Babin, Cave, Medvedz, Kupferschmidt, Eleven Rivington, New York, New York, January 10 – February 13,
2010.
Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, January 23 – May 9, 2010. Traveled to: Kemper Museum, Kansas
City, Missouri. Catalogue. Texts by Rudolph and Cecilia Gunzburger Anderson.
Dead or Alive, Museum of Art and Design, New York, New York, April 27 – October 24, 2010. Curated by
David Revere McFadden, Lowery Sims, and Elizabeth Edwards Kirrane. Catalogue.
Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in Art and Craft, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, May 15 –
July 25, 2010. Curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver. Catalogue. Texts by Glenn Adamson, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Namita Wiggers.
Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, New York, May 15 – July 23, 2010.
Call and Response: Africa to America / The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo, Halsey Institute of
Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina, May 27 – June 26, 2010.
Pattern, Costume, and Ornament in African and African-America Art, Birmingham Museum of Art,
Birmingham, Alabama, June 6 – September 12, 2010. Curated by Ron Platt.
Disidentification, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sweden, July 2 – October 31, 2010.
2009 – 2010
The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
September 19, 2009 – January 10, 2010.
2009
Giving Face: Portraits for a New Generation, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, New York, March 7 –
April 11, 2009. Curated by Stephen Heighton.
White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, June 18 – August 12, 2009.
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York,
July 12 – October 4, 2009.
Beyond Appearances, Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY, Bronx, New York, September 10 – December
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities, Spelman College Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia, September 10 – December 5, 2009. Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Karen Comer Lowe.
Über-Portrait, Bellevue Museum, Bellevue, Washington, closed October 18, 2009. Curated by Stafano
Catalani.
SCAD / Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia.
2008 – 2022
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, December 3, 2008 – May 30, 2009. Traveled to:
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 20 – September 4, 2011; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 1, 2011 – February 12, 2012; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, March 16 – July 15, 2012; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, June 14 – September 8, 2013; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, October 11, 2013 – January 12, 2014; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 8 – June 15, 2014; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, April 9 – June 21, 2015; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, October 18, 2015 – January 18, 2016; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, March 19 – August 28, 2016; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, September 24, 2016 – January 15, 2017; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, February 8 – May 6, 2018; Juliet Art Museum, Charleston, West Virginia, May 12 – August 19, 2018; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, October 5, 2018 – January 13, 2019; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, February 2 – May 5, 2019; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, June 1 – August 25, 2019; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 2019 – January 12, 2020; Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii, February 22 – June 21, 2020; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico, October 3, 2020 – January 3, 2021; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, September 25, 2021 – January 9, 2022. Catalogue. Text by Franklin Sirmans.
2008 – 2010
Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, January 25 – April 13,
2008. Traveled to: Art Gallery, University of Montana Western, November 2008; Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, May 21 – August 1, 2009; MonDak Heritage Center, Sydney, Australia, August 21 – September 21, 2009; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, March 25 – June 27, 2010. Curated by Katie Knight. Catalogue. Texts by Peter Selz and Liz Gans.
2008 – 2009
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, October 18, 2008 – January 11,
2009. Catalogue.
Fashion Forward, Islip Art Museum, Long Island, New York, December 7, 2008 – January 25, 2009.
Curated by Karen Shaw.
2008
Working History: African American Art and Objects, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed
College, Portland, Oregon, January 22 – March 2, 2008. Curated by Stephanie Snyder. Catalogue.
Everything vs. Nothing, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York, April 17 – May 31, 2008.
Disguise: The Art of Attracting and Deflecting Attention, Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery, Cape
Town, South Africa, May 5 – July 15, 2008. Curated by Joost Bosland. Catalogue.
Ahh, Decadence!, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, August 23 – September
27, 2008. Curated by Lisa Wainwright.
Boys of Summer, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Hot House: Expanding the Field of Fiber at Cranbrook, Reading Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Implant, UBS Art Gallery, New York, New York.
2007 – 2008
BoysCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel, November 3, 2007 – February 24, 2008.
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, December 13, 2007 – January 26, 2008.
2007
Taking Possession: in Conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of the Central High School Desegregation
Crisis, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, August 15 – October 10, 2007. Curated by Brad Cushman.
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, July 16–August 3, 2007. Curated by Odili Donald
Odita. Catalogue. Text by N’Gone Fall.
Interiority, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, June 10 – July 29, 2007. Curated by Stuart Keeler.
The Handmaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Curated by Amy lIpton and Joele
Cuyler.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida.
2006
Crafty, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, September 5 – October 14, 2006.
Black Alphabet: Contexts of Contemporary African American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,
Poland, September 22 – November 19, 2006. Curated by Maria Brewinska. Catalogue.
Unholy Alliance: Art + Fashion Meet Again, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada,
October 6 – November 12, 2006.
2006 – 2007
Black Panther Rank and File, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, March 17 – July
2, 2006. Traveled to: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 21 – November 30, 2007.
A Changing Fabric, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, September 30, 2006 – January 7, 2007.
Factory Installed: Deborah Aschheim, Jesse Bercowetz, Matt Bua, Nick Cave, Dan Steinhilber, Mattress
Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 10, 2006 – January 28, 2007.
2005 – 2008
Color: Ten African American Artists, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 20 –
October 22, 2005. Traveled to: Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, August 29 – October 7, 2006; Evansville Museum, Evansville, Indiana, 2007; Marywood University Art Gallery, Scranton,
Pennsylvania, October 19 – November 18, 2007; James Michener Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, March 15 – July 6, 2008. Catalogue.
2005 – 2006
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, November 11, 2005 – March 12, 2006. Curated by Thelma
Golden and Christine Y. Kim. Catalogue. Texts by Thelma Golden, Franklin Sirmans, Malik Gaines, Dominic Molon, Sarah Lewis and Aimee Chang.
The Whole World is Rotten, Venice Biennale, Italy and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Traveled to:
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2005
Different Wavelengths, Tina Kum Fine Art, New York, New York, November 17 – December 16, 2005.
Art-wear, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California.
2004 – 2005
The Nature of Craft and the Penland Experience, The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, North
Carolina, July 3, 2004 – January 30, 2005. Curated by Ellen Denker and Dana Moore.
2004
Crowning Glory, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois.
2003 – 2004
Cross Currents, Courthouse Galleries, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia, December 12, 2003 –
February 8, 2004.
2003
Tender Prey, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 18 – November 16, 2003.
Independent: Inseparable: Intersection, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, Illinois.
2002
Body and Soul, American Craft Museum, New York.
Concealing & Revealing, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
Netherlands Textile Museum, The Netherlands.
2001
Music in my Soul, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, Virginia, April 19 – July 1, 2001. Curated by Gayle
Paul.
Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Virginia.
I am Someone Else, The Conenexion, The Netherlands.
Kestner Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Recycle/Redefined, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho.
2000 – 2001
S.O.S. Scenes of Sound, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, October 28,
2000 – January 28, 2001. Catalogue.
Zierat: International Contemporary Invitational, Southwest School of Arts & Craft, San Antonio, Texas.
Traveled to: Galerie Cebra, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2001. Curated by Charon Kransen. Catalogue.
2000
Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri.
Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Artist in Residence, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1999 – 2001
Stop Asking, We Exist, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 14 – September
8, 1999. Traveled to: New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, Massachusetts, October 7, 1999 – January 8, 2000; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, January 31 – March 26, 2000; American Craft Museum, New York; Court House Galleries, Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Florida Craftsmen, St. Petersburg, Florida. Curated by Joyce J. Scott. Catalogue.
Men of the Cloth, Loveland Museum of Art, Loveland, Colorado. Catalogue.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21 Century Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art in Embassies Program, United States
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Benetton Group, Italy BET Networks, New York
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama Brooklyn Museum, New York
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas The Dean Collection, New York
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Hallmark Corporations, Kansas City, Missouri High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Johnson County, Kansas The Joyce Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
McCormick East, Chicago, Illinois
Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Mott Foundation, Flint, Michigan Museum of Arts and Design, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
The Portland Art Museum, Oregon Portland State University, Oregon Purdue University Galleries, Indiana
Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Samuel Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Illinois
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Illinois Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Stanford University, Stanford, California Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark
University of Rochester’s Memorial At Gallery, New York UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2017
Art in Embassies International Medal of Arts Honoree
2017
September 16, 2017 declared Nick Cave Day in Chicago, Illinois
2014 Americans for the Arts 2014 Public Art Network Year in Review, in recognition of Heard – NY.
2008
Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
2006
Artadia Award
Joyce Foundation, Joyce Award
2004
Creative Capital Grant
2002
Creative Capital Grant
2001
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2000
“Faces in the Field,” The Field Museum of Natural History Award
1997
Illinois Arts Council State Grant
1993
Arts Midwest Grant
Illinois Arts Council State Grant
1987
Ford Foundation Scholarship (also 1998 and 1999)
DONATIONS
2016
Africa’s Out! 2016 Celebration and Benefit Auction
PERFORMANCES
2017
Here Hear, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
2016
As Is, The Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Louisiana
2016
Heard, CarriageWorks, Sydney, Australia
Heard, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Sydney, Australia
2015
Figure This: Detroit, Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan Up Right: Atlanta, Flux Projects, Atlanta, Georgia
2014
Heard: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2013
Heard, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Heard, New York City, Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal. Presented by Creative Time and MTA Arts
for Transit
2004
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2003
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia “Feast for the Eyes”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2002
“BamBoleo”, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois “The Color of Fashion”, Chicago, Illinois
2001
“Serious Moonlight”, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
2000
“Convergence 2000”, Handweavers Guild of America, Inc Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio Pennsylvania Art Education Association, (PAEA), Conference, Allentown, Pennsylvania
INVITED JUROR
2003
“Art to Wear”; 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
2002
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center; Michigan Annual Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham, Michigan Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant, Columbus, Ohio
The Wisconsin Exhibition, Stevens Point, Wisconsin
1994 – 1998
School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Fashion Department, Junior Scholarship Awards, Chicago, Illinois
1996
Columbia Collage; Fashion Department, Fashion Competition Awards, Chicago, Illinois
1995
Evanston Arts Council; 10th Anniversary Evanston Ethnic Arts Festival, Evanston, Illinois Mid- America Arts Alliance; Mid-American Artist Grant, Kansas City, Missouri
1989
North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, North Carolina
TEACHING 2009
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2004
Altered Garments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Workshop/Lecture, Chicago Holter Museum of Art,
Helena, Montana
City Association of The Art Institute of Chicago, Studio Visit/Lecture, Chicago, Illinois Portland Art Museum Association, Studio Visit/Lecture, Portland, Oregon
2003
University of Arizona, Lecture/Workshop
Studio Tour/Lecture, School of the Art Institute Women’s Board, Chicago, Illinois Studio Tour/Lecture, Oakland Art Museum Women’s Board, Oakland, California
Studio Tour/Lecture, American Craft Council, New York
Studio Tour/Lecture, Grand Rapids Community College, Grand Rapids, Michigan 2002
The Future of Dress: Education and Advocacy?, The Costume Society of America Annual National
Symposium, Participant in the panel discussion, Chicago, Illinois Creative Capital Retreat, Lecture, New York
2001
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Fashion Department, Tenure Appointment Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fashion Department, Chicago, Illinois
2000
Tryon Center for the Visual Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
Allentown School for Visual and Performing Arts, Allentown, Pennsylvania University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina
University of Manoi-Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
1999
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
University of Massachusetts, Darmont, Massachusetts Island Press, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri
1998
Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
1997
Pillchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
1989
Department of Fiber and Material Studies, Full Time Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
